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“In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and with a willingness to respond to the earth's demands that we cease our industrial assault, that we abandon our inner rage against the conditions of our earthly existence, that we renew our human participation in the grand liturgy of the universe.”

Source: Creative Energy: Bearing Witness for the Earth

“Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.”

Has Beens Painting Rejection Abandon Abandoned Mistress

Author:Samuel Morse

“All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls for the inclemency of large areas of glass.”

Doe Has Beens Spiritual Mistake Failing Wall Areas Glasses Missions Architecture Abandon Serenity Shelter

Author:Luis Barragan

“The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.”

Has Beens Ideas Lasts Political Language Party Abandon Abandoned Elsewhere Vulgar Political Parties

Book:Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville

Source: Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville

“Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.”

Has Beens Political Politics Power Corruption Abandon Intoxicated Term Limits

Author:Edmund Burke